Click on the link below for a biography of Senator Joseph McCarthy Senator McCarthy Documentary about the McCarthy hearings.
Here is a clip of the famous televised hearings of 1954 where McCarthy had claimed that even the US Army was infiltrated with communists.
How to spot a communist?
"The House Committee on Unamerican activities was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those
organizations suspected of having Communist ties".
Found on http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/huac.cfm
Who was on the Hollywood "black lists"?
At first it was mostly directors and screenwriters but some famous actors also made the list. Lucille Ball was black listed.
Read a very interesting article about the "Hollywood Ten"...the first group of Hollywood people to be blacklisted here: Hollywood Ten
The case of communist spys, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Senator McCarthy
Here is a clip of the famous televised hearings of 1954 where McCarthy had claimed that even the US Army was infiltrated with communists.
How to spot a communist?
"The House Committee on Unamerican activities was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those
organizations suspected of having Communist ties".
Found on
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/huac.cfm
Who was on the Hollywood "black lists"?
At first it was mostly directors and screenwriters but some famous actors also made the list. Lucille Ball was black listed.
Read a very interesting article about the "Hollywood Ten"...the first group of Hollywood people to be blacklisted here:
Hollywood Ten
The case of communist spys, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg